This book has been on my TBR for a very long time and I finally read it on a plane to Boston, where it takes place (actually Cambridge is the setting). In the book, Becky Cooper, a Harvard undergrad, hears the story of a Harvard anthropology graduate student bludgeoned to death in her apartment near Harvard Square, a murder that remains unsolved after 40 years. Cooper sets out to find the killer. Is it the professor she may have had an affair with? her boyfriend? her fellow grad student neighbors? Other members of the Harvard Anthropology Dept?  This is a well written and engaging story about the crime and also about the student who wouldn’t let the case die. It is a portrait of Harvard and academia is the 60s- a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites. It’s the story of a venerable institution. seeking to protect its own.  This book is a bit too long and sometimes the memoir part is overly dramatic in places and also long but otherwise interesting and thought provoking